SheQuantum Newsletter October 2024

🌟 Exciting Times in Quantum! 🌟

We’re thrilled to announce the October 2024 edition of the SheQuantum newsletter! 🚀

In this issue, we dive into the latest advancements and breakthroughs in the quantum world, keeping you informed and inspired. Here are some highlights you won’t want to miss:

🔹 Global Innovations: Discover groundbreaking research and innovations from leading institutions around the globe that are shaping the future of quantum technology.

🔹 Expert Insights: We feature interviews with top quantum scientists and thought leaders who share their perspectives on the direction of quantum research and its implications for various industries.

🔹 Community Spotlight: Meet the trailblazers and emerging talents within the quantum community who are making waves and driving progress.

🔹 Events & Opportunities: Stay updated on upcoming conferences, workshops, and networking opportunities where you can connect with fellow enthusiasts and experts.

At SheQuantum, we are committed to fostering a vibrant quantum community and sharing knowledge that empowers us all. Join us as we navigate this exciting frontier together!


Quantum Motion and Goldman Sachs Identify Quantum Applications in Financial Services Project

Quantum Motion, a UK-based quantum computing scale-up founded by Professor John Morton, University College London (UCL), and Professor Simon Benjamin, University of Oxford, has worked alongside Goldman Sachs to research how quantum computers can be used in financial services to perform complex calculations, such as options pricing. More

QED-C Report Addresses the Use of Quantum Sensors to Mitigate Shortcomings of GPS and other PNT Devices

A new report from the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) found that using quantum sensors could improve the accuracy and reliability of position, navigation, and timing (PNT) devices which offer critical insights on location, orientation, altitude, tilt, directional movement, acceleration, and timing for nearly every industry. PNT tools are especially prevalent in defense, transportation, communications, energy, finance, and healthcare. More

NIST Announces 14 Candidates to Advance to the Second Round of the Additional Digital Signatures for the Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process

After over a year of evaluation, NIST has selected 14 candidates for the second round of the Additional Digital Signatures for the NIST PQC Standardization Process. More

Most efficient implementation of the Quantum Fourier Transform on a linear chain

The teams at ParityQC and the University of Innsbruck discovered the most efficient implementation of the Quantum Fourier Transform – one of the most fundamental algorithms in quantum computing – on a linear chain. In the paper “SWAP-less implementation of Quantum Algorithms” they present the novel implementation, which eliminates the need for SWAP or Shuttling operations. More

Validating random circuit sampling as a benchmark for measuring quantum progress

While quantum processors in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era demonstrate remarkable potential, they are susceptible to errors, i.e., noise, that accumulate over time and limit the number of qubits they can effectively handle. This poses a fundamental question: despite the limitations of noise in quantum computing, can these systems still provide practical value and outperform classical supercomputers in specific applications? More

Accelerated Computing Key to Quantum Research

New review paper from Moderna and Yale demonstrates speedups for key quantum algorithms using NVIDIA’s CUDA-Q platform, paving the way to scale drug discovery research with accelerated quantum supercomputers. More

This IQM quantum computer will enable Eviden’s clients to engage in quantum programming and applications

Eviden, the Atos Group business leading in advanced computing announces having signed a partnership with IQM Quantum Computers – a global leader in designing, building, and selling superconducting quantum computers – to make quantum computing a reality across businesses and organizations. More

Up to 20X Speed-Up in Molecular Conformer Search with Terra Quantum’s New Method

A new tensor train-based approach significantly speeds up the process of predicting molecular structures by 5X to 20X over classical methods. The technique helps accelerate drug discovery and material science research by efficiently generating molecular structure datasets without the need for training data. More

D-Wave Introduces Service-Level Agreements for Leap Quantum Cloud Customers in Production

D-Wave Quantum Inc., a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services and the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers, today announced the introduction of service-level agreements (SLAs) specifically tailored for Leap quantum cloud service customers who are transitioning applications into production. More

Quantum Computing, Inc. Extends Collaborative Agreement with Los Alamos National Laboratory

This strategic collaborative agreement focuses on QCi’s new entropy quantum optimization machine, Dirac-3, and its capabilities to quickly and efficiently solve highly complex problems associated with quantum simulations, social networks, protein structure prediction, and telecommunications. QCi’s Dirac-3 quantum optimization machine is the first of its kind to solve beyond QUBO problems, addressing high-dimensional discrete variables with multi-body interactions, which sit in the upper tier of the world’s most complex optimization problems, using nonlinear quantum optics. More

Keysight Introduces Quantum Circuit Simulation the First Circuit Environment with Frequency-Domain Flux Quantization

Keysight Technologies, Inc. introduces Quantum Circuit Simulation (Quantum Ckt Sim), an innovative circuit design environment that speeds up the development of intricate quantum circuits. In addition, by joining forces with Google Quantum AI, the solution incorporates advanced flux quantization which marks an industry-first achievement. More

Germany Awards Contract to Quantum Brilliance and ParityQC to Build World’s First Mobile Quantum Computer by 2027

Quantum Brilliance, the leading developer of miniaturized, room-temperature quantum computing products and solutions, and ParityQC, the world’s only quantum architecture company, announce they have jointly been awarded a contract by a German agency, Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit GmbH „Innovation in Cybersecurity“ to develop the world’s first mobile quantum computer by 2027. More

Quantinuum Unveils Accelerated Roadmap to Achieve Universal, Fully Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing by 2030

Quantinuum, the leading quantum computing company, unveiled its roadmap to universal, fully fault-tolerant quantum computing by 2030. The roadmap materially accelerates the path to commercial quantum computing systems with the potential to unlock a trillion-dollar market and enable AI to help solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. In parallel, Quantinuum in partnership with Microsoft announced a series of milestones and integrations. More

Quantum Brilliance Announces Strategic Collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Quantum Brilliance (QB), a global leader in diamond-based quantum technology, announced a strategic collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to build a joint platform that enables collaborative development of quantum computing with high-performance computing (HPC) by exploring the on-premises integration of QB’s quantum computing cluster into HPC systems at ORNL. More

SheQuantum is establishing the Quantum Software Engineering Standardization Council (QSESC)

Quantum Software Engineering Standardization Council (QSESC), is constituted by SheQuantum. The council convenes to deliberate on and advocate for the standardization and universalization of Quantum Software Engineering, comprised of global experts. The council’s first goal is to soon publish a comprehensive whitepaper on “Universalization of Quantum Software Engineering” emphasizing the criticality of standardization in this field. This document will be published and disseminated for the global quantum community through SheQuantum and further will be shared with key standards organizations including National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), ISO – International Organization for Standardization, and IEEE. More


Exploring the Future: “SheQuantum and Quantum Computing Education“

In the dynamic realm of quantum computing, where the boundaries of what’s possible are constantly expanding, and we at SheQuantum are making significant strides. Recently, the UK’s leading quantum magazine dedicated a special editorial feature to highlight the impactful work of SheQuantum in the domain of quantum computing education. More…


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